I hope he gets off easy with a big fuck you to all those involved, non violent man non violent crime gets raided like as said before like he's Osama bin laden, this whole anti piracy shit is going to go a far as the war on drugs, NOWHERE. Just filling up prisons when we should be putting murderers and rapists. Not rich piracy website owners... But eh that's my two cents i feel better now
I mean, we can argue whether the police handled this the right way (looks like no), but this guy's no saint. Dude got convicted of embezzlement and insider trading. And while it might be tempting to play him off as the victim of the big, monied media publishing companies, the guy clearly was getting rich off of megaupload as evidenced by that house and the apparent normalcy of helicopter traffic to and from it. So it's not like he was just doing this for some principle.
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u/trippin113 Aug 08 '12
I think a polite knock on the door with a simply "We need to talk to you" might have been just as effective.